ATI Event Footage (Post #1 for Video!)

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02-28-2005, 01:17 PM
macci

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Originally Posted by sky

and chilly1 pouring the ln² in there.. btw bare hands, wtf? hehehe...

Bare hands all the way!
I believe that everyone standing in this pic dipped there hand in liquid nitrogen :D

It was a great weekend with loads of great overclockers and some xtreme action: triplestages, autocascade, huge ln2 tanks, dryice...
It was a pleasure to be a part of it. Also a great pleasure to meet such great guys. Thumbs up to ATI & co. for organizing such event :up:

As far as hardware goes... I didn't kill anything! :D

As far as records goes... I didn't hit anything! :D

As far as drinking goes.. I didn't drink.. much! :D

I believe OPP got the highest score and reached over 8.7k with his x850. Fugger got past 8k too but not sure how far? Fugger tested a lot of different platforms during the event and with chilly1's help used some 'never-seen-before' cooling action (ln2 direct feed from the tank, for both CPU and GPU!). Great show!

My plan was to make sure I get everything doing the speeds needed for a record (meaning CPU, ram, video). Never got the whole 'pack' doing it all together. CPU (fx55) would run over 3.6GHz (spi1m @3633MHz, 1.75V) with fairly low voltage, RAM (OCZ VX) would do near 270 2-2-2-5 at only 3.4ish and finally I got the card up to 837/685 too. But like I said doing it all together just didn't happen this time. Ran out of time.
I hit 8376Marks while testing the card speed at 837/685 and that is with CPU at default speed (2600MHz) and slow mem timings and old driver ;) At that point it was nearly sunday and we decided to call it a day and start packing stuff.

I have to add that the PC ice cascades I was able to use were easily the best coolers I've ever used. Capacity indeed ;)
02-28-2005, 01:33 PM
AH^DK

Sounds very nice indeed Macci, now when the NDA is expired, lets see some pics.
02-28-2005, 01:40 PM
Chriviper

Congratulations

I just wanna say Congrats to Macci, OPP, and Fugger!!!! Man i wish i could have been there, i love the pictures u guys are animals!!!
02-28-2005, 02:50 PM
Cpt Twitchy

Bare hands and liquid nitrogen, Can't that like freeze your hand off? I'd like to know more about this weird activity.

Great pics Matt and hopefully there'll be more events held like this or even this becoming an anual event.
02-28-2005, 02:55 PM
Detrepid

Subscribed, Great pics and amazing rigs there guys. Inspiring work really!!
02-28-2005, 02:58 PM
eva2000

Quote:

Originally Posted by macci

Bare hands all the way!
I believe that everyone standing in this pic dipped there hand in liquid nitrogen :D

:eek: :eek: :eek:
02-28-2005, 03:01 PM
snq

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cpt Twitchy

Bare hands and liquid nitrogen, Can't that like freeze your hand off? I'd like to know more about this weird activity.

I've actually been wondering the same thing all weekend :)
Anyway thanks for all the pics, been following this thread all weekend!

Edit: I know, too much all weekend, but its true ;)
02-28-2005, 03:02 PM
wittekakker

Bare hands is not so bad: only if u stuck ur hands for lets say 5 seconds in the ln2 container, u will notice much. U saw the video? Well, if u get some LN2 on u'r hands it will vaporize very quickly. Huge amounts would be bad because they last longer.
02-28-2005, 03:02 PM
macci

some more pics can be found here
02-28-2005, 03:04 PM
skate2snow

If you would dip you hand into the LN2 you would actually have a grave paraliz to your hand if not all your arm. At -XXXC you don't send any "signals" anymore, so it kinds of "close" that "port".... Sorry I don't know the english words;). (And I know what I'm talking about on that subject;)).
02-28-2005, 03:12 PM
Cpt Twitchy

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U saw the video?

Nope. Didn't work for me.
02-28-2005, 03:15 PM
wittekakker

Hmmm, Isn't LN2 used to burn wrath's away? I remember it like something... burning. :s
02-28-2005, 04:22 PM
FallenAngel

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Originally Posted by Cpt Twitchy

Nope. Didn't work for me.

I can't see it either
02-28-2005, 05:24 PM
saaya

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Originally Posted by runmc

ATI had there own volt mod man with them. He modded all the motherboards and video cards. The guy was great. He used very tiny wire.
http://www.teampuss.com/runmc/Lanpar...e/P1010024.jpg
http://www.teampuss.com/runmc/Lanpar...e/P1010027.jpg
http://www.teampuss.com/runmc/Lanpar...e/P1010028.jpg
http://www.teampuss.com/runmc/Lanpar...e/P1010029.jpg

:o damn!
if anybody knows how to mod ati cards its an ati engineer!
there are different ways of modding hardware, im sure he used the best ways to get stable yet high voltages!
we need to get close ups of his mods! :D
02-28-2005, 05:34 PM
Mr. Tinker

There's something crazy going on in that last ATI engineer pic. What are those VR's doing hanging off the yellow power connector, and where are they going? I haven't seen that mod, but I may not be as savvy as the rest of you.
02-28-2005, 06:28 PM
VoRtAn_MaDgE

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Originally Posted by Mr. Tinker

There's something crazy going on in that last ATI engineer pic. What are those VR's doing hanging off the yellow power connector, and where are they going? I haven't seen that mod, but I may not be as savvy as the rest of you.

Not that hard...he's getting ground on that connector, if u take a sec analysing the pic u can see that the vr's that he's using only connect there from one leg of the vr ;)

That table looks my bed when i'm vmodding... also use the pdf's hehe!

Looks very professional indeed!
02-28-2005, 06:29 PM
Mr. Tinker

ah, you're right.
02-28-2005, 06:32 PM
Grayskull

Incorrect.

But you are right about one thing, he's a pro.

Quote:

Originally Posted by VoRtAn_MaDgE

Not that hard...he's getting ground on that connector, if u take a sec analysing the pic u can see that the vr's that he's using only connect there from one leg of the vr ;)

That table looks my bed when i'm vmodding... also use the pdf's hehe!

Looks very professional indeed!
02-28-2005, 06:39 PM
VoRtAn_MaDgE

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Originally Posted by Grayskull

Incorrect.

But you are right about one thing, he's a pro.

Damm i was almost 100% that he was using groun on that pins...so what the hell is the enginner doing :p: ?

If not using ground is he giving voltage to something? I assume that pins can give voltage...5/12v ?
02-28-2005, 06:46 PM
Grayskull

Man this sounds like the ministry of misinformation.

Two gfx cards were fried, one really good by Fugger but was eventually patched. So only one card. And maybe one bullhead was fried by Fugger when he LN2'd it.

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Originally Posted by matt9669

Thanks for all the kudos guys! ;)

I don't know for sure what the scores were. There were no records broken, but only if you don't count the five or so busted X850's, two or three dead RS480 "Bullhead" boards and the X850 that was lacquer coated to drive out condensation :lol:

I took about forty minutes or so of video footage. This coming week I should have time to put it together into one or more DiVX clips. For now, here's a preview: http://www.mattoverclocked.com/preview.avi

(Music courtesy of DJ Jade, http://www.jadedbeats.net and will be used in the final versions)

Hopefully we'll have some of the pics up soon that were under NDA, including the 512MB X850XT PE! :up:

Matt: read post #257.
02-28-2005, 06:52 PM
gclg2000

Uhm that yellow part is part of the VIVO stuff. It's a CD audio cable plug. The PCI express power connecter is next to it in black.

I'm pretty sure on this, i don't know why they are hanging from that though.
02-28-2005, 06:54 PM
VoRtAn_MaDgE

I noticed at first that it was vivo connector but i was trying to figure it out the connection made it there...

Fugger u revealed a killer instinct for oc :D , i killed a mobo due to condensation too so ... :D

Well the good of all this is that looks like u all aprecciate the meeting and for the one's that couldn't be there i guess we all like the pics (some crazier than others)...

Will this event be repeated in the future Grayskull, do u know ?

Thks!
03-01-2005, 06:01 AM
Mr. Tinker

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grayskull

Incorrect.

But you are right about one thing, he's a pro.

So can you tell us who he is and what he does at ATI? I'm sure that there are quite a few engineers at ATI who know some juicy secrets about mods but can't be public about that sort of stuff.

I have a friend who worked at a bike shop in Virginia and he said that every once in a while someone would bring in some crazy messed up and modified bike for repair and you could always bet they were a NASA engineer. I'd like to see the home computers of these ATI engineers.
03-01-2005, 06:43 AM
xpr-k

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cpt Twitchy

Bare hands and liquid nitrogen, Can't that like freeze your hand off? I'd like to know more about this weird activity.

Great pics Matt and hopefully there'll be more events held like this or even this becoming an anual event.

If i remember correctly your not allowed to ware gloves handling liquids that cold . Cant really remember the exact reason though , the quick vaporizing when in open air had something to do with it . It was something like , normally when you feel you touched the liquid you'll pull back very quickly and it will vaporize before the skin can drop to a temperature which will harm it . If your wearing gloves , the gloves will go cold and you'll be exposed to extreme low temperatures for longer . Something like that
03-01-2005, 07:02 AM
eva2000

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grayskull

Man this sounds like the ministry of misinformation.

Two gfx cards were fried, one really good by Fugger but was eventually patched. So only one card. And maybe one bullhead was fried by Fugger when he LN2'd it.

geez Fugger really has a nack for hardware :D

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